I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

You should be the change that you want to see in the world.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

To believe in something, and not live it, is dishonest.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not any man’s greed.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Find purpose, the means will follow.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

We must respect other religions, even as we respect our own. Mere tolerance thereof is not enough.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew. When asked if he was a Hindu.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.

This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.

History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.